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Upper Iowa University President's Message
It
is an honor and privilege to serve as Upper Iowa University’s
20 th President. This is an ascending institution, embodying
the character and virtue of a traditional private liberal arts
university while providing greater access to higher education
through its extension activities and the use of technology.
Upper Iowa University proudly provides undergraduate and graduate
degree programs to a culturally diverse community of learners
around the globe in a variety of delivery styles, without losing
sight of its rich heritage and without compromise to the character
and quality of its curriculum.
For almost 150 years men and women have looked
to Upper Iowa University in search of their dreams. It’s no wonder
that Upper Iowa University has produced a long and distinguished
list of alumni who include one of the founders of the YMCA and
a Nobel Peace Prize winner, the first Speaker of the U.S. House
of Representatives west of the Mississippi River, a world famous
archaeologist and scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a founder
of a fortune 500 Company (Target stores), just to name a few. We
are a lifelong partner to those who strive for excellence and success
in a complex and ever-changing world.
Today, as you walk around the Fayette campus or
any of our domestic and international centers, and talk to our
students, faculty and staff, or take a virtual tour, you will notice
there is a sense of pride, vision, and optimism at Upper Iowa University.
As the largest private/independent university in Iowa, the only
institution in Iowa to play Division II athletics, and with our
growing portfolio of degrees through the masters, we have a very
bright future before us.
Alan G. Walker
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